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in Jewish Thought
Festschrift in Honor of Joseph Dan
on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday

Edited by

Rachel Elior and Peter Schafer

 Contents

English Section

Introduction

Philip S. Alexander
The Talmudic Concept of Conjuring ('Ahizat 'Einavim)
and the Problem of the Definition of Magic (Kishuf) 7

Dan Ben-Amos
On Demons 27

Peter Schafer
From Cosmology to Theology. The Rabbinic Appropriation of
Apocalyptic Cosmology 39

Margarete Schluter
The Creative Force of a Hermeneutic Rule. The Principle "There is
No Earlier and Later in the Torah" in Midrashic and Talmudic Literature 59

Bernard McGinn
Selective Affinities. Reflections on Jewish and Christian Mystical
Exegesis 85

Klaus Herrmann
An Unknown Commentary on the Book of Creation (Sefer Yezirah) from
the Cairo Genizah and Its Re-Creation Among the Haside Ashkenaz . . . . 103

Herbert A. Davidson
The First Two Positive Commandments in Maimonides' List of the 613
Believed to Have Been Given to Moses at Sinai 113

Annelies Kuyt
Hasidut Ashkenaz on the Angel of Dreams. A Heavenly Messenger
Reflecting or Exchanging Man's Thoughts 147
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Haym Soloveitchik
The Midrash, Sefer Hasidim and the Changing Face of God 165

Eli Yassif
The Medieval Saint as Protagonist and Storyteller.
The Case of R. Judah he-Hasid 179

Gerold Necker
Circle, Point and Line. A Lurianic Myth in the Puerto del Cielo 193

Marc Saperstein
"Ein Li 'Eseq ba-Nistarot". Saul Levi Morteira's Sermons on
Parashat Bereshit 209

Giuseppe Veltri
"The East" in the Story of the Lost Tribes. Creation of Geographical
and Politiaal Utopias 249

Aviezer Ravitzky
Covenant of Faith or Covenant of Fate? Competing Orthodox
Conceptions of the Secular Jews 271

Avinoam Rosenak
Halakhah, Thought and the Idea of Holiness in the Writings
of Rabbi Chaim David Halevi 309

Kimmy Caplan
"Absolutely Intellectually Honest". A Case-Study of American
Jewish Modern Orthodox Historiography 339

Saverio Campanini
A Case for Sainte-Beuve. Some Remarks on Gershom Scholem's
Autobiography 363

Eric Jacobson
Ahavat Yisrael. Nationhood, the Pariah and the Intellectual 401
 Contents VII

Hebrew Section

Introduction 1*

Yair Zakovitch
Genesis Exegesis: Genesis-Psalms-Job-Psalms 7*

Rachel Elior
"You Have Chosen Enoch from Among Human Beings":
Enoch "The Scribe of Righteousness" and the Scroll's Library of
"The Priests the Sons of Zadok" 15*

David Weiss Halivni

Restitution of the Bible 65*

Avigdor Shinan
"He Created all for His Glory": The Creation of the World and its
Purpose in Light of 'The Marital Blessing of the Grooms' 75*

Avraham Grossman
Women in the Teachings of the German Pietists 85*

Giulio Busi
The Early Kabbalistic Exegesis on the Book of Contemplation 97*

Moshe Hallamish
The Utterance and the Holiness as Reflected in the Laws of the Sabbath 103*

Jacob Elbaum and Chava Turniansky

The Moral of the Householders: The Book "Sam Hayim" by Avraham
Ashkenazi Apteiker from Ludmir 111 *

Hagit Matras
Creation and Re-creation: A Study in Charm Books 147*

Joseph Hacker
The History of the Study of Kabbalah and its Dissemination in Saloniki
in the 16th Century 165*

Raya Haran
The Redemption of the World or the Annihilation of the World:
Restitution in Hasidism 181 *
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Arnold J. Band
Secularization of the Sacred? Forms of Inter-textual Expression
in a Poem by Yehuda Amichai 193*

Hamutal Bar Yosef

Personal Inter-relations as a Mystical Aspiration in Hebrew Zionistic
Literature 197*

Miri Kubovy
Exile in the Motherland: "Katzchen" and "Ephraim", Two Stories of
Yoel Hoffmann 225*

Naama ben Shahar

Bibliography of Joseph Dan 239*